Dialect Quiz

[busdepot]

Girlfriend sent me this. Kind of interesting where you pick up words and pronunciations from. Only US cities, but you get the idea.

Mine were Seattle, New Orleans and New York. None of which are surprising but were surprising at the same time. Seattle is much like here so our vocabulary would be similar. I spent my summers in Quebec as a kid 45min from the NY state border. My parents lived in Houston for 5 years.

Check it out and post your results. Or don't. IDGAF :D

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

[dirtsniffer]

Lincoln Nebraska.
Portland Oregon
Omaha Nebraska

[Strider]

Seattle, WA
Spokane, WA
Tacoma, WA

How boring
:zzz:

[Agent_Oorange]

Rochester, NY
Buffalo, NY
Minneapolis/St. Paul

Guess it makes sense since I was born in Ontario

[cet]

Minneapolis/St. Paul
Madison, WI
Rockford, IL

I was born in the UK and have lived in Alberta since I was about 3.

[tch7]

Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, but then I'm also deep red in the midwest:
http://nyti.ms/1aHASEm

[GTS4tw]

Orlando Florida
Jacksonville Florida
Pembroke Pines Florida

:dunno: :nut:

As far away as possible from where I actually grew up! I have never even traveled east of Alberta.

[jwslam]

Originally posted by Agent_Oorange
Rochester, NY
Buffalo, NY
Minneapolis/St. Paul

Guess it makes sense since I was born in Ontario
Closest to you I guess. But I've lived here all my life.

Lincoln
Minneapolis / St Paul
Buffalo

[sabad66]

Seattle, Tacoma, Long Beach.

Pretty neat. Unlike that retarded "where should you live" quiz lol

[Unknown303]

Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Wichita...

[nickyh]

New York
Yonkers
Newark.

That's just wrong........considering i grew up on the other side of the world.

[JaffX]

New York, Yonkers, Providence

[baygirl]

Boston, Newark, Miami...

I had to laugh at the dinner question. Me calling lunch dinner has caused so much confusion with Spikers lol

[Amysicle]

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[baygirl]

Originally posted by Amysicle
Pembroke Pines, FL

Someone from NS told me that dinner = lunch and supper = evening meal? Or maybe the opposite of that? I always thought they were interchangeable or dinner is more formal than supper.
Lunch can be lunch or dinner
Supper can be also be dinner
Hence the confusion here:rofl:

[englishbob]

Minneapolis,Fort Wayne and providence.

[Sugarphreak]

...

[schocker]

Fremont, San Jose or Ancorage :nut:

[01RedDX]

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[n1zm0]

Seattle, Tacoma, Honolulu, in other words North Western-North American dialect? :dunno:

A Canadian centric one would be an interesting one.

[Cos]

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[J.M.]

Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Augusta-Richmond

:dunno:

[jdmXSI]

Seattle, buffalo and rochester

[whydontchathen]

Seattle, Portland, Buffalo.

[whydontchathen]

Originally posted by cet
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Madison, WI
Rockford, IL

I was born in the UK and have lived in Alberta since I was about 3.

Now this is weird. How can this be?? :confused:

[triplep]

Buffalo
Yonkers - what kind of name for a Town is that
Newark/Paterson

[Myrrinda]

Weird, born and raised in Calgary, and yet:

Boston
Miami
Pembroke Pines, FL

[Modelexis]

Vegas

[98brg2d]

Honolulu
San Jose
Long Beach

Very interesting to see the variety of answers, shows a small piece of the diversity in Calgary these days. I bet if you went to a Calgary school when I grew up you would get each kid giving the same answer 99% of the time.

[InLoveWitRSX]

honolulu, wichita, anchorage

[busdepot]

Now with lots of results, do any of them make senses as to where certain words came from or certain pronunciations from a parent or grandparent?

[cet]

^ Not for me. Both my parents were born and raised in the UK as were their parents. Unless that area of the US was highly influenced by Brittan then it doesn't make much sense.

[adam c]

Newark/Paterson - Buffalo - Seattle

[viff3r]

Seattle, Spokane, Minneapolis. Which I guess makes sense since the two Canadian cities I've lived in the longest are Winnipeg & Calgary. At least geographically, my results seem to line up.

Also... drive thru liquor stores are a thing?! Why not in Calgary...

[Myrrinda]

Originally posted by busdepot
Now with lots of results, do any of them make senses as to where certain words came from or certain pronunciations from a parent or grandparent?

Both of my parents were born and raised in South Eastern Sask. My top three cities were strange (Boston and 2 in Florida), but the overall map in general shows my strongest area as North Dakota, so I suppose that actually makes sense. It would be interesting to compare myself to my friends that I grew up with.

[Strider]

Originally posted by busdepot
Now with lots of results, do any of them make senses as to where certain words came from or certain pronunciations from a parent or grandparent?

Or for those of us who are ESL and raised in Calgary, does it matter which part of the city you grew up in?

I grew up in the NW (Dalhousie) and got Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma.

Wife grew up in the NE (Marlborough) and got Oakland as one of hers... same with her childhood friend. I was only joking when I said I expected her to get Brooklyn / Compton / Oakland. :rofl:

[Alphazone]

Yonkers
Jersey City
New York

[bjstare]

Seattle
Oakland
Honolulu

[natty54]

seattle
spokane
minneapolis / saint paul

[baygirl]

If you do the quiz a second time you get different questions, and different cities in the end...

[95EagleAWD]

I got Detroit and another city in Michigan... can't remember. Makes sense, since I learned how to talk just across the river in Sarnia.